Do You Speak Greek?

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Not really at all about God, although I found at the end, even intended metaphorically, it did elude to faith.

Do You Speak Greek?

Sometimes I wonder what you see,

Try to figure it all out.

They say the eyes are the windows

To the depths of a soul,

But I’ve gazed into yours oft enough,

That I really begin to doubt.

 

I suppose it is what makes me come back,

I am not used to things this complex,

Your mastery of the then,

Is more powerful than mine of the now.

 

You can recite the book of Revelations,

But it is all in Greek,

You are an open book in another language

One I try so desperately to learn,

 

I wonder how long you’ll wait

Before you sigh that little sigh,

The one when I get it wrong,

And tell me you were wrong,

Wrong to teach a heathen, the language

Of the divine.

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

Narrator’s Poems (39)

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Ablaze 0
A Different Kind of Poet 3
Do You Speak Greek? 0
Dancing Away From Me 4
No Longer An Artist 2
Do not forget 1
Competition 1
To Handsome Stranger 1
Ol' Christopher Marlowe's Day 3
Foolhardy 3
Oh so softly 3
'tis oft now I wonder... 5
Free to Soar 9
Dead Filament 4
Wise Fool 4
Mispent Eternity 2
My Sanguine Knight 3
Crimson Tears 5
Condemnation of alternative expression 6
Sir Lancelot 0
In a courtyard of ages 3
From whence all verse was born: 5
Please Realize 3
Here at the end of all things 0
Enduring Eternally 1
The bank of practicality is bust: 1
They can say what they will, I disagree. 2
Poetry Should Rhyme: 5
A new age: Change 0
Fate of a Soul 2
Oh My Love... 1
Standing Still 1
Where the laburnum blossoms fall... 1
Pulling down the stars 1
New Light 1
Ignorance is not bliss... 1
The Decline 1
Is the music of the soul the song of the wind? 3
Is freedom an illusion? 1